(Japanese mustard) The deeply frilled foliage has beautiful red streaks set against a green background. The visual effect is like an abstract expressionist painting, mesmerizing if you let yourself get drawn into the detail.
Important herb of the Orient: cough remedy is prepared from the roots; wholesome young foliage added to salads. Interesting profuse blue flowers resemble balloons just before opening.
The variety name was badly translated and should really be "Japanese Black Truffle". We do not know what the connection to Japan is, but the beautiful dark plump pear-shaped fruits do vaguely resemble chocolate truffles.
Botanical Name: Solanum lycopersicum 'Japanese Black Trifele'
Slow to burst, forms a tight, dense head with small core. Good mid season variety with solid deep red head weighing about 2kg/5lb. Crisp and tender, adds colour to salads and fine flavour to cooked dishes.
The skin is blue-green and shiny, and the flesh is deep orange, succulent and sweet. (Shamrock squash; Triangle squash) An old Australian variety with a deeply lobed shape like a shamrock.
Approximately 2.25 TBS. Loaded with protein! Great for a snack, on sandwiches, or in salad, clover sprouts are loaded with calcium, potassium, protein, iron, and zinc. Of seed per ounce.
Can replace meat and bone stock in soups. Also gives the character to vegetable, meat and fish dishes. Leaves possess excellent flavouring qualities for soups, stews and casseroles.
It is also commonly used to reduce inflammation. It has been shown to have powerful anticancer properties with great promise. Attractive purple flowers. Ht. 15-30cm/6-12" The American company, Bionova, is developing a drug derived from this herb for the...
(Chinese parsley) The piquant flavour of fresh coriander leaves, so essential in authentic Chinese and Latin American cuisines, has become very popular in recent years. ‘Longstanding' is the strain commonly grown in North America for fresh leaves.
The flavour is rich and deeply satisfying, with -- well -- a hint of plum! The fruits are dark because they accumulate anthocyanins which have potent antioxidant properties. One of the darkest tomatoes known: it gets almost as dark as a plum when direct...
Pods start off green, turn jet black, and slowly ripen to red. Mildly hot and absolutely delicious. Heat: 2,500 Scoville units. Black fruits and large purple flowers create quite a nice ornamental effect.
Also used as a vaginal wash against trichomoniasis, and to treat scabies and fungal diseases. (She chuang) Chinese stimulant and aphrodisiac used to treat impotency.
This is the true strain used in Vietnamese and Thai cooking. Similar to anise basil, but the flavour and fragrance is distinctively less licorice-like. Essential fresh cut accompaniment to many Vietnamese dishes, including pho, a famous beef or chicken...
Harvest young fruits at 8cm/2-3” for making pickles. Bitter free cucumber at all slicing stages. Mature fruits are attractive, smooth skinned, medium green in colour 18cm/6-7” long, 5cm/2” diameter.
The whole plant can be used, and an infusion of leaves with mint is an excellent nutritious tea, rich in easily assimlated vitamins, minerals and trace elements, including protein, calcium and iron.
Productive plants resist lodging. Excellent for chicos. An heirloom favourite with a truly delicious, buttery, rich flavour. Large 20cm/8" ears with golden-yellow kernels and long-lasting sweetness.
Contains ecdysteroids which have anabolic-like growth promoting effects without the side effects associated with drugs. A potent 'adaptogen' that helps athletes increases endurance, reflexes an concentration, and helps them to recover faster from exertion.
Adds special flavour to sausages and meatloaf. A must in German potato soup. Leaves add strong, spicy flavour to soups, sauces, stuffings, stews. Rubbing with fresh leaves before roasting improves all strong meats.
When the glossy green pods are 10-18cm/4-7in long they are ready to shell. Each pod contains 5-7 flat oblong beans for fresh or dry use. Ht. 90-120cm/3-4ft. Grow like garden peas. Also the leaves can be cooked like spinach, and the young pods, 5-7cm/2-3in...
The flavour is pleasantly nutty. They are most tender when just 5-8cm (2-3") across. They also make a most decorative container at the dinner table for other foods when scooped out.
It has a very fine corn flavour which is why it remains a favourite today. Appalachian favourite from at least 1845 with beautiful maroon and dark red ears. Plants are tall, up to 4m/12ft, and each stalk produces two large ears with about half a pound...
